A visit was made by WTA Secretary-General, Oh Deog-Seong ; WTA Director, La Tae-Ho and Yeom In-Sup, WTA Researcher ; to Japan during September 5~9 and to Bahrain during September 10~14 to promote UNESCO-WTA mutual cooperation project and specifically to discuss with Japan on the possibility to become a WTA Executive Board member. They also attended at the Workshop held in Manama city, Bahrain during September 10~14 with the theme "Development of Arab Technology Park" organized and sponsored mutually by WTA and UNESCO.

During the period in Japan, they discussed with :

- Sapporo City : recommended and asked by WTA to be an Executive Board Member and explained on the 2006 UNESCO-WTA Workshop to be held in Daejeon City during November 6~10, 2006

- Ministry of Economy and Industry : introduced and promoted by WTA on the WTA activities and UNESCO-WTA project